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(3) Two fixed station technical controllers. (4) Clear communications difficulties be-<br />
(4) A general draftsman. tween local and distant facilities by causing<br />
equipment checks to be made.<br />
(5) A reports clerk.<br />
(5) Conduct tests to locate and evaluate<br />
(6) Two teletypewriter operators. sources of trouble.<br />
(7) A radio operator. (6) Maintain circuit outage records and<br />
place additional circuits into service as the traffic<br />
13-20. Patching Central loadrequires.<br />
(7) Use judgment, initiative, and technical<br />
The primary functions and the personnel of the knowledge to insure continuity and responsive-<br />
PATCENT are listed in a and b below.<br />
ness of communications.<br />
a. PATCENT Functions. b. PATCENT Personnel.<br />
(1) Provide an interface facility and inter- (1) A fixed station technical control superconnect<br />
and test all communications systems and visor.<br />
circuits that enter or leave the site.<br />
(2) Reduce circuit outage time by rerouting<br />
(2) Four technical controllers.<br />
circuits or channels.<br />
(3) A fixed station electronic equipment repairman.<br />
(3) Establish emergency interconnections<br />
between tropo terminals and between tropo ter- (4) Two multipurpose power generator opminals<br />
and the communications systems exten- erator/mechanics.<br />
sion facilities provided by other communications (5) A fixed station electronic equipment reunits.<br />
pairman apprentice.<br />
Section V. SIGNAL MAINTENANCE SECTION OPERATIONS<br />
13-21. General ence the selection of the most advantageous pat-<br />
The signal maintenance section performs direct tern.<br />
support level maintenance on company electronic a. Distances between company elements.<br />
equipment and scheduled organizational maintenance<br />
on company tropo site air-conditioning<br />
equipment. Although the operators of tropo ter- c. State of technical training of both operator/<br />
minal electronic equipment are operator/repair- repairman and signal maintenance section perman<br />
type personnel, normally, they analyze and sonnel.<br />
isolate equipment troubles and restore equipment d. Availability of air transportation.<br />
to service by repairing it. Assembly repair is performed<br />
by the signal maintenance section. Because<br />
the elements of the light tropo company are<br />
so widely separated, the signal maintenance sec- The composition of the two maintenance teams<br />
tion is deployed in two teams.<br />
given in a and b below is a type composition and<br />
is based in general on the type deployment shown<br />
13-22. Section Deployment in figure 13-6.<br />
A type deployment of the signal maintenance sec- a. Team No. 1.<br />
tion is shown in figure 13-6. The intent of the de- (1) Electronic technician.<br />
ployment is to place the two maintenance teams<br />
near electronic equipment population centers. For (2) Senior tropo repairman.<br />
example, in figure 13-6, maintenance team No. 1 (3) Field radio repairman.<br />
is collocated with the company and 1st platoon (4) Multiplex equipment repairman.<br />
headquarters at site E; maintenance team No. 2<br />
is collocated with the 3d platoon headquarters at (5) Tropo repairman.<br />
site C. Many other deployment patterns are possi- (6) Multiplex equipment repairman apprenble,<br />
and the following considerations will influ- tice.<br />
13-7
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